For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:
They have spoken {Or, against}unto me with a lying tongue.
They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,
And fought against me without a cause.
For my love they are my adversaries:
But I give myself unto prayer.
And they have {Hebrew: laid upon me.}rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.
Set thou a wicked man over him;
And let {Or, Satan Or, an accuser}an adversary stand at his right hand.
When he is judged, let him come forth guilty;
And let his prayer {Or, become}be turned into sin.
Let his days be few;
And let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;
And let them seek their bread {Or, far from}out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner {Hebrew: snare.}catch all that he hath;
And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
Let there be none to {Or, continued}extend kindness unto him;
Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off;
In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah;
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Let them be before Jehovah continually,
That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
Because he remembered not to show kindness,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
And the broken in heart, to slay them.
Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;
And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,
And it came into his inward parts like water,
And like oil into his bones.
Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself,
And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,
And of them that speak evil against my soul.
But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake:
Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;
For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
I am gone like the shadow when it {Or, is stretched out}declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.
My knees {Or, totter}are weak through fasting;
And my flesh faileth of fatness.
I am become also a reproach unto them:
When they see me, they shake their head.
Help me, O Jehovah my God;
Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:
That they may know that this is thy hand;
That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.
Let them curse, but bless thou:
When they arise, they shall be put to shame,
But thy servant shall rejoice.
{Or, Mine adversaries shall be clothed…And they shall cover &c.}Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor,
And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;
Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from them that judge his soul.
Querverweise zu Psalm 109,3 Ps 109,3
They have now compassed us in our steps;They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
For without cause have they hid for me {Or, the pit of their net}their net in a pit;Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.
Many bulls have compassed me;Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
For they speak not peace;But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
They came round about me like water all the day long;They compassed me about together.
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul;The mighty gather themselves together against me:Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Begone, begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow:
They run and prepare themselves without my fault:Awake thou to {Hebrew: meet.}help me, and behold.
Jehovah hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and Jehovah hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and, behold, thou art taken in thine own mischief, because thou art a man of blood.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head:They that would cut me off, being mine enemies {Hebrew: falsely.}wrongfully, are mighty:That which I took not away I have to restore.
{[Chapter 12:1 in Hebrew]}Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit; {Or, and Judah is yet unstedfast with God and with the Holy One who is faithful} but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.
And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
for he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great {Hebrew: salvation.}victory for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?
And Absalom {Or, sent Ahithophel}sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, {Psalm 35:19; 69:4}They hated me without a cause.